Studio One 5.2: Sound Variations

Join Chris Swaffer as he tells you all about the Sound Variations new to Studio One 5.2-get powerful control over sophisticated orchestral libraries like Vienna Symphonic Library-and more!
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[@SamDiazProducer]

Thank you so much for this Presonus, this is by far the most amazing update for composers!! I’ve used Studio One on countless commercials/trailers in my career since version 1.5 and it's never let me down!

[@snarf1504]

This is fantastic for composers and people working with complex virtual instruments!

[@lukasruschitzka]

It is!

[@petersvan7880]

A big thank you to Presonus for this terrific update with greatly improved articulation management! Implemented in a very clean and logical way, my hats off to the bright minds behind Studio One!

[@TerenceKearns]

Wow man. This is EXACTLY the sort of thing I've been wanting more of. I'm glad to see you can specify different note velocities for key switches. A lot of instruments do different things based on key switch note velocities.

[@zaharishtonov]

Fantastic work on this one! Blows Cubase out of the water in simplicity!

[@ToeShimmel]

This just moved me from FL Studio to Studio One!

[@MustacheVerra]

Was hoping they would improve the keyswitch feature but this looks way beyond what i was hoping for. Yoope!

[@marcusgonzalez5134]

That's very serious, clapping!

[@ChristopheTornieri]

Awesome! The feature I was dreaming of. Really nice and slick integration. As a VSL SE Synchron library owner It is just amazing.

[@presonus]

So glad you're excited about this Christophe! Hopefully many more companies will follow VSL's example and implement our Dynamic Mapping API for instant recall of key switch mappings. -GBY

[@ChristopheTornieri]

@@presonus I have tried the feature this morning. Works great! I have one question tough: Is there a way to trigger variation based on the techniques you enter in the score view? Like If I write Pizzicato in the score view I would like to see a variation applied automatically in the variation lane but it does not seem to be the case.

[@sivaramakrishnanmeenakshis167]

Very good addition! Thank you so much.

[@Alex.kid.huxley]

Awesome ! So far the best improvement for me. I wondering what will be the next step ... the modulation / dynamics curves improvement ? Very nice work devs !

[@cosmicgeorge]

Wow, what a giant leap forward!

[@mystdeisanto9919]

This is HUGE. THANK YOU SO MUCH! I'm so happy to know that Presonus started to give more attention to media composer. The only thing that I wish to add is "chunk" feature on DP. I hate using DP, they're so buggy on Windows, but can't live without it because of that feature. Please, dear Presonus, make "chunk" feature available on Studio One.

[@homeofcreation]

I have already finished building a brand new VEP VSL Synchronised SE 1-4 + template with many custom arts. Now where can I learn how to make sound variations macros so I can use Studio One remote for art switching? Seems to be the way to go. And thanks again for this wonderful solution. Just amazing!

[@ShamStalin]

Big thank you to Presonus~ Studio One is finally getting it's way to the top~ Next : Filmscore workflow.

[@TheSavage1969]

Mr Swaffer, you should do more videos for PS....you are way more articulate, clear, and organized than some of your colleagues imo. Great work today. Regards.

[@PendelSteven]

8:53 Okay, everybody, if you haven't e-mailed Native Instruments yet to let them put this in Kontakt, either: - contact them right now - or put it in your calender to do ... You know we need this!

[@homeofcreation]

Thank you Thank you Thank you Presonus and VSL!!!!!!!!!

[@FatLoveIceCream]

This is a really really really killer UPDATE! Thank you Presonus

[@toddwmac]

I'm a little late to the game but excited by this. I had a simple question...how do you get the note color on the piano roll to match the color of a variation? The actual demo (3:53) had the colors changing accordingly, but the VSL demo at the end (8:40) had them not changing. That is what I see...no change despite having variations applied. Thanks!

[@erhanmusician]

Excellent! Thank you.

[@marcotronic]

Awesome! This is a game changer! Gonna upgrade my Studio One 4 Pro immediately and will probably switch from Nuendo back to Studio One again at least for composing 🙂

[@petersvan7880]

You should! Left Cubase some time ago as it got stuck in the mud. Studio One is such a breath of fresh air in comparison :)

[@tiscover]

You can do the same thing in Cubase for years...

[@homeofcreation]

I noticed that when you save the automatically generated presets of the Synchron player instruments, those can directly be used for VEP instruments.

[@studioonetutorials]

Yes, this works - however, they won't update if you change the structure in the Synchron player. -LR

[@homeofcreation]

@@studioonetutorials Thanks for the heads up. That makes sense.

[@es__music]

Can you layer sound variations? Let's say I duplicate a note an octave lower, can I have the lower octave note play one articulation and the higher octave play another articulation?

[@igorlogewsky]

Chris, tell me, please! How I can to show sound variations in the remote app? (I have the Samsung Tablet). Thanks a lot of🙏

[@PTFWWDB]

uhh so how do you do this? without kontact and all that equipment

[@midicalproductions4722]

4:40 : Why the sound variations list not always appears in the left side of the midi editor (inspector panel) or in the right or the right click menu?

[@GREG29PRODUCTIONS]

Great news 😃 But how to use it for dynamics? Thx

[@jimp5713]

hi I just got an ipad 9th gen abd studio one remote app doesnt seem to work triggering note variations. I am using VSL BBO Free and it did not detect any sound variations, so i quickly created new one. And that works within Studio One via KS but not in the Remote App. Could someone help if i need something more to setup? Thanks.

[@wolfgangkurz156]

There is a problem with BBC SO: it seems it is necessary to assign the Sound variations manually to the Presonus App on Android. But S1 doesn't understand all the specific Variations as e.g. Short Harmonics, Long CS... Staccato, pizzicato is working. What can I do to get these all?

[@Bezowinz]

I was hoping this would be improved over what was introduced in 5.0. Nice!

[@rotemcohen7425]

Great video! was wondering if you could automate sound variations/really edit them. like extending the vibrato effect or shortening it. i know i can bounce the thing and edit it but i was really hoping for an editing ability to really express the thing i was going for. thanks ahead to anyone who can answer!

[@studioonetutorials]

Sound Variations are actually aliases or containers for certain MIDI events and properties such as key switches, MIDI CC messages, program changes or channel numbers. So the actual changes in sound depend on the instrument that you have assigned to your instrument part. If the instrument can adjust the vibrato effect and there's a way to control it via MIDI then there's nothing to stop you from controlling it with Sound Variations. However, if you are talking about gradual changes, automation is probably the better way to go.

[@ASTROMEGA]

More scoring techniques and tips please.

[@chrismatarazzomusic8086]

Please produce some Notrion tutorial videos!! Would love tutorials from the basics and up!

[@thekingsown10]

Brilliant, go studio one !

[@KevinKuschel]

AWESOME!! :)

[@thetinmansheart]

Fantastic. Question: how are you showing both velocity and variations on separate horiz graphs/lanes?

[@studioonetutorials]

There's a "plus" button at the bottom that allows you to add as many automation lanes as you like!

[@thetinmansheart]

@@studioonetutorials thank you Lukas, the reddit sub fixed me up long ago.

[@hugo54758]

6:28 Okay this is neat

[@julienm1841]

Hi Presonus Team! I use Studio One 5 and VSL ; in the note editor, after right-clicking on a note, there is an additional menu than "sound variations", called "Articulations", with a list of similar articulations with musical symbols (like staccato, fortepiano..) than sound variations. When I activate an articulation, it seems to "cancel" the previous VSL sound variation. Could you explain what does it refer to ? I did not find neither automation nor MIDI editor for those "articulations"? Thanks a lot for your help!

[@studioonetutorials]

It seems to need to link the symbols to your desired Sound Variations. You might want to take a look at one of my Sound Variation and symbols videos. -LR kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJWqZqF7i66hh7M

[@fukong]

Epicest update ever! Any chance to get the articulation switch mapping preset you've been made for "mainstream" sample libs on the market (like showed at 3:22) before they get accessed to S1's API and finish their development? It would be more than perfect if you generously release that! Thank you

[@studioonetutorials]

This UACC map I show in the video is already included in version 5.2. You find it in the factory presets. Other Sound Variation maps can be shared via PreSonus Exchange.

[@fukong]

@@studioonetutorials Great and just subbed your channel

[@AlexSonicsMusic]

Just what I needed, Yeeeeehhaaaaaaaaaaw:0 thanks, thanks, thanks!!

[@chris5375]

Amazing 🔥🔥🔥

[@philippewills6758]

Very good tool… it seems the most easier tool that we can use in a Daw to manage articulations, very near to Reaticulare which is also a fine tool used with Reaper. Expression maps of Cubase and the huge job to create its could be forgotten ! I just regret that SO don’t include an assignation tool for midi CC which is essential with big librairies which contain a lot of… it is not possible to remember midi cc assignations of all our libraries or synths… this is a relevant and, in my knowledge, an exclusive feature of Reaper. Everybody may imagine that it is easier to adjust a midi cc lane if we see Vibrato … if we see Cc21… you have to review the Vi to know what is its the relevant midi cc for vibratos… With this tool present in Reaper and a good articulation manager, it becomes a pure pleasure to use big libraries…

[@richardsizer]

Oh dear 😢...........Going forward this is going to be fantastic - especially as a VSL using composer - well done to Presonus and VSL 👍. HOWEVER, I have just updated to work on my current orchestral piece and the keyswitch maps I constructed for VSL and the red lanes are destroyed! All the keyswitches have changed to ? and you can not see them as midi messages on the red bars anymore 😢 Sure, I can reinput every articulation for every musician for an 11 minute orchestral piece but I am really hoping there is a way of converting already made pieces - please help! 😁👍

[@citizenworld8094]

How did you actually assign the variations in the first instance?

[@studioonetutorials]

Do you mean how I created the variations - or how I assigned them to my MIDI controller? -LR

[@citizenworld8094]

@@studioonetutorials The latter please. I noticed in your opening sequence you pressed buttons on your keyboard. How did you do that to change the articulations? Thanks in advance

[@studioonetutorials]

@@citizenworld8094 Ah I see. I used the "Apply Variation" commands which you can find in the Keyboard Shortcuts. These can also be assigned to buttons on my MIDI controller. I have 9 buttons on my M-Audio Axiom Pro (some more if I use the pads too) so I can recall the first 9 variations with them. -LR

[@citizenworld8094]

@@studioonetutorials Hi Lukas, have you a tutorial on how you assigned them using your midi controller buttons?

[@studioonetutorials]

@@citizenworld8094 Not quite but almost. Here's a video on assigning any kind of commands to MIDI controller buttons. Just do this with the "Apply Variation [1-10]" command. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6G5eKaXrNaBZq8

[@tunesofeleven]

Genius

[@dmitryefimovakaefimus694]

There are so many sound variations list in this video. ProjectSam, Cinesamples, Forest Kingdom etc... Is it possible to get it somewhere? Now I have only UACC and UACC KS.

[@presonus]

Hi Dmitry, check out BabylonWaves: www.babylonwaves.com/studio-one/ -GBY

[@Wkcomposer]

@@presonus I love this feature! How to organize it into folders like in the videos (3:22)? I organized my presets (key switches) manually in the folder (S1 > Presets > User Presets > Key Switches) but it didn't update in the program. Is there a solution?

[@gillianbanemusic]

@@Wkcomposer I hope for an answer too, but I will try to find out and if I do, I will let you know ;-)

[@dmitryefimovakaefimus694]

@@presonus Thank you! Great site!

[@Wkcomposer]

@@gillianbanemusic Thanks man. I will also try to figure it out and give you an answer.

[@grandprizebigfuzz-musicart2594]

It's a great improvement but not being able to switch artics via midi channel still handicaps this system compared to the competition.

[@studioonetutorials]

Switching MIDI Channels via Sound Variations is now possible in Studio One 5.3. -LR

[@maximmosalev7978]

The video shows an example where a part is played with single notes. But if two or three notes are played at the same time, is it possible to make it so that one plays a tremolo, the other is stacato, and the third is long? I think thats impossible in S1. It's sad, because you can do this in Logic Pro.

[@studioonetutorials]

Every instrument would explicitly need to support this. This certainly doesn't work with any 3rd party sample library in Logic Pro.

[@TheSteveSteele]

@@studioonetutorials MPE.

[@studioonetutorials]

@@TheSteveSteele MPE has nothing to do with switching articulations.

[@TheSteveSteele]

@@studioonetutorials No, but you can assign each note it’s own MIDI channel using the MPE spec.

[@keithdunwoody1302]

Ten thumbs up!

[@lovemusic942]

So how does this compete with Ableton?

[@petersvan7880]

Ableton who?

[@MrSlimfinger]

In what way wouldn't it be a good competitor? Funny you would bring it up in this video where we're mostly looking at the note/MIDI editor, which is lightyears ahead of the one in Ableton. They are both good DAWs in their own right though.

[@lovemusic942]

@@MrSlimfinger Ableton has a bigger market though. The show page won't draw compared to using a Push 2 controller with session view.

[@MrSlimfinger]

@@lovemusic942 I agree. For the more "traditional" workflow I really prefer Studio One though.

[@GS-gk6nf]

It would be absolutely great if you start from the beginning. I am using Komplete and I see nowhere to add the variations. Zero help here

[@studioonetutorials]

I tried to cover all basic information in this video - hope it helps: kzbin.info/www/bejne/apanfZKMm9WJqbs

[@johanandre5338]

Very nice! The dude should raise his chair or lower the desk though... :)

[@studioonetutorials]

Thanks Johan - It's just right for me ;-) -LR

[@roy4286]

How do you resize Studio One 5.2 instruments with all the improvements why is that so hard to do now. Also how do you exit full screen mode l entered full screen mode to see if that could fix the instruments too large problem and ended up having to restart the computer because l could not even use the task manager or any other window while Studio One 5 was in fullscreen mode. My first day using not impressed so far.

[@presonus]

You can toggle in and out of Fullscreen mode with Shift+F. -GBY

[@Cadmeus]

Please tell me you're going to allow easy community sharing of these mappings, because it makes no sense for every Studio One user to have to recreate this for a commercial library, when another already has. I have many dozens of libraries, I'm never going to spend the time to sit down and map out all the keyswitching for hundreds of patches for each of those, just for convenience of MIDI editing.

[@presonus]

Hi Cadmeus, Babylonwaves made of over 7000 templates for all major libraries including Spitfire, Eastwest, Orchestral Tools and Cinematic Instruments: www.babylonwaves.com/studio-one/ Vienna Symphonic Library's key switch articulations are already supported natively through our brand new Dynamic Mapping API. -GBY

[@MrSlimfinger]

@@presonus you didn't answer the question though :)

[@presonus]

@@MrSlimfinger Users can already share their own customized keyswitch maps through PreSonus Exchange. These maps can be downloaded either from our website, or directly from Studio One's Browser ("Clouds" Tab -> Exchange). Here's a link to a map as an example that I just uploaded as a test: my.presonus.com/exchange/detail/2659 -GBY

[@MrSlimfinger]

@@presonus Very awesome, thanks for the quick reply!

[@Cadmeus]

@@presonus Thanks for the reply, that's great to know!

[@roy4286]

I am using Windows 10

[@101Licious]

Love Studio One ! Sound-Variations is a great feature that no DAW has and it's so important ! But Studio One is missing 1 feature ... that only 1 DAW has, Reason ReGroove. The Groove Tool of Reason Studios is so great. Wish S1 would have such a feature. Then it would be the perfect DAW for me. :)

[@samimohamadi2015]

hello please add a new option for set grid timebase to a customized groove preset.this is really a big weakness in the software

[@hugo54758]

7:09 Wideos? Cute :P

[@aahl1680]

We are still waiting for AUTOMATION in the project page! Please......

[@almur88]

please open the GUI code (or how it's done anyway) in the presonus.software for custom appearance tweaking in a similar way Cocos Reaper has some gorgeous skins, pleasant to the eyes and comfortable to work in. I won't give up writing this request from time to time. and if someday by any chance I get famous I will shout my plea to millions of people. your current graphics is just killing me, and what's worse - I can't escape Studio one. it is the best daw out there, that's why I feel trapped.